E f schumacher biography for kids

British statistician and economist (1911–1977)

Ernst Friedrich SchumacherCBE (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a British statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.^[1] He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the British National Coal Board from 1950 to 1970, and founded the Intermediate Technology Development Group (now known as Practical Action) in 1966.

E f schumacher biography for kids

In 1995, his 1973 book Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered was ranked by The Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential books published since World War II.^[2] In 1977 he published A Guide for the Perplexed as a critique of materialisticscientism and as an exploration of the nature and organisation of knowledge.

Early life

Schumacher was born in Bonn, Germany in 1911. His father was a professor of political economy. The younger Schumacher studied in